Biography

Professor Gjerdingen researches in the area of legal theory, focusing on the special intellectual structure of American legal thought. His publications include articles on such topics as law and economics, legal education, takings law, and modern legal thought.

On Indiana Law faculty since 1988, Professor Gjerdingen teaches American Constitutional Law for Foreign Lawyers, a class required for international graduate students. Gjerdingen currently teaches Torts, Introduction to American Law, Wills and Trusts, and American Constitutional Law for Foreign Lawyers. He also has extensive teaching experience in constitutional law, environmental law, administrative law, legal theory, jurisprudence, and law and economics.

For his dedication to his many graduate and J.D. students over the years, Professor Gjerdingen has earned the School's Leon Wallace Teaching Award as well as the IU Trustees Teaching Award.